holocaust
Meaning of holocaust
noun
- A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes.
- Extensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire).
1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times
- In particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see).
- To sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely.
- To destroy completely, especially by fire.
- (possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide.)
Information about holocaust
- The plural form of holocaust is: holocausts.
- Languages in which holocaust is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of holocaust
holo-caust
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- holocaust is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
holocaust synonyms
Meaning Holocaust:
Translation of holocaust
- French: holocauste
- Spanish: holocausto
- German: Holocaust
- Italian: olocausto
Words that rhyme with holocaust
Aust, Holocaust, hippocaust, hypocaust, postholocaust, Faust, Panzerfaust, faust, infaust, exhaust, haust, inexhaust, inhaust, kinkhaust, multiexhaust, overexhaust, preexhaust
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